MAMMOTH LAKES – Investigators finished up Friday at the scene of Steve Fossett’s plane crash in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada just ahead of a storm that threatened to bury any remaining evidence under 2 feet of snow.

They discovered three more bone fragments Friday, said a Madera County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman. Like a piece found the day before, they will be sent to a lab to determine whether they are human and a match for Fossett.

Teams of volunteers, as well as local and federal search crews, had furiously combed the site for any evidence that could help piece together the mystery of Fossett’s plane crash more than a year ago.

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